IMS (Institue of Museum Services) uses the following categories for
defining museums in their grant applications:

        Aquarium
        Arboretum/Botanical Garden
        Art
        Children's/Youth
        General (two or more disciplines represented equally)
        Historic House/Site
        History
        Natural History/Anthropology
        Nature Center
        Planetarium
        Science/Technology
        Zoo
        Specialized (limited to one narrowly defined discipline)

Hope that this helps!

Laura McMann
Museum Studies Program
George Washington Univ.
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On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Roussel, Claude: SCI wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I need to subdivide different types of museums into a set of categories,
> something like "Science and Technology", "Arts", etc. Would anyone be
> gentle enough to inform me of such categories.
>
> Thx
>
> Claude Roussel
> SchoolNet
> Industry Canada
>